When you are passionate about the one right thing, then you become impervious to many other things. Come pleasure, come pain, come attractions, come distractions, nothing matters to me, because now I have something extremely worthwhile in my life. One thing, one life, one love, one passion. Isn’t that a great way of living life?
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Questioner: Good evening, sir. Sir, you talk of how we make our decisions based on mere emotions, and then it affects us a lot. Sir, recently there was a seminar in our college where a speaker came. He talked about a book and said never to read it. Then, out of curiosity, I picked up that book. Sir, the name of that book is The Fountainhead.
The protagonist in it is Howard Roark. Sir, as I read it, I was observing. It didn't affect him in any situation no matter what. Literally, it was like someone was telling him that this will happen to you, this will happen. Yes, sir, he talks like that. But I felt like, I mean, I then questioned whether it really can be like this. I mean, can it really happen like this? I felt good reading that it didn't affect him.
Acharya Prashant: Then you need to go through the book once again. The first time because of that speaker, the second time because of this one (pointing towards oneself). It's a book that speaks to the heart. Not that the character of Howard Roark is seen as indifferent to everything, that's not the case. He is so possessed by, so sold out to just one thing, that everything else has become inconsequential to him. That's the thing.
